SORN car in private parking bay?

NorthFin

How can I tell if my parking bay outside my flat is needing to be taxed or not?

It is a block of flats with numbered parking bays in rows, if I leave my car in my numbered bay is that a public road or is it classed as offroad?

Aretnap

For the purposes of tax, a public road is one which is repairable at public expense.

http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1994/22/section/62

It sounds unlikely that it is a public road, but you may want to check that someone other than the local authority (a management company? The residents in general?) are responsible for its upkeep.

You should also check what your lease says about parking - it's possible that it only gives you the right to park a taxed vehicle there.

ratrace

NorthFin wrote: »

How can I tell if my parking bay outside my flat is needing to be taxed or not?

It is a block of flats with numbered parking bays in rows, if I leave my car in my numbered bay is that a public road or is it classed as offroad?

Your flat which you have an allocated parking bay (numbered) for

which gives you all rights to have your car parked in there, id does not matter if you use your car on a daily or monthly or yearly basis as it your bay and no one else can use it at any time

if its sorne ie no insurance its somewhat risky for you if someone hits it and makes off you will have to get it repaired yourself at your cost of course

jimjames

ratrace wrote: »

Your flat which you have an allocated parking bay (numbered) for

which gives you all rights to have your car parked in there, id does not matter if you use your car on a daily or monthly or yearly basis as it your bay and no one else can use it at any time

if its sorne ie no insurance its somewhat risky for you if someone hits it and makes off you will have to get it repaired yourself at your cost of course

You seem to be confusing tax and insurance. You can still be insured if your car is sorn, as mine is at the moment.

If your car is taxed it has to be insured though.

ratrace

jimjames wrote: »

You seem to be confusing tax and insurance. You can still be insured if your car is sorn, as mine is at the moment.

If your car is taxed it has to be insured though.

Aahh I see, thanks for that you learn something new everyday

giraffe69

You should also check what your lease says about parking - it's possible that it only gives you the right to park a taxed vehicle there.

In the days of no disc how would anyone easily know?

NorthFin

The way things work selling a car nowadays, it would make sense if you want to sell your car, to drive until the end of any given calander month, then declare it sorn.

Then the new buyer would have to tax it before buying it.

That way the government do not get 2 lots of tax the same month every single car that is ever sold in the UK.

Disabled_Rights_For_Me

Do you think when the new tax changes occurred it was done so the government would get more money? It is quite wrong that they get paid two lots of tax by two different people.

It can be a lot of effort to claim a week or two's worth of tax back, or maybe even three to four, and I think a lot simply won't bother so it is a win win for the government.

ratrace

NorthFin wrote: »

The way things work selling a car nowadays, it would make sense if you want to sell your car, to drive until the end of any given calander month, then declare it sorn.

Then the new buyer would have to tax it before buying it.

That way the government do not get 2 lots of tax the same month every single car that is ever sold in the UK.

But how's the potential new buyer going to test drive the car if the car is Sorn before exchanging any money, and what if the seller tax's the car to sell and it sells within a few days surely hes lost out

The government didn't think this once through did they - No surprise there then